Universal Credit

Chris Bryant: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland 
	(1)  if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of extending entitlement to NHS prescriptions to all claimants of universal credit once universal credit has been fully rolled out in Scotland;
	(2)  if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of extending entitlement to free school meals to all claimants of universal credit once universal credit has been fully rolled out in Scotland;
	(3)  if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of extending entitlement to NHS dentistry exemptions to all claimants of universal credit once universal credit has been fully rolled out in Scotland;
	(4)  if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of extending entitlement to legal aid to all claimants of universal credit once universal credit has been fully rolled out in Scotland;
	(5)  if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of extending entitlement to court fees exemptions to all claimants of universal credit once universal credit has been fully rolled out in Scotland;
	(6)  if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of extending entitlement to repayment of children's welfare loans to all claimants of universal credit once universal credit has been fully rolled out in Scotland;
	(7)  if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of extending entitlement to education maintenance allowance to all claimants of universal credit once universal credit has been fully rolled out in Scotland;
	(8)  if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of extending entitlement to the energy assistance package, stage 3, to all claimants of universal credit once universal credit has been fully rolled out in Scotland.

David Mundell: The Scottish Government is responsible for defining the entitlement criteria for these passported benefits. They will need to consider the current eligibility criteria and make arrangements to ensure that they can continue to deliver these benefits as universal credit is introduced.
	There is ongoing engagement between the Scottish Government and the Department for Work and Pensions to ensure that any solution is simple, fair, easy to understand and affordable.

Broadband

Andrew Selous: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport when he expects superfast broadband to be fully rolled out in (a) England and (b) Central Bedfordshire.

Edward Vaizey: 90% of the UK, including Central Bedfordshire will be able to receive superfast broadband by early 2016, rising to 95% by 2017.

Tourism

Mark Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what steps he is taking to help the tourism industry retain its role as a key provider of skills and training for the UK workforce.

Helen Grant: The Government has recently launched a new Tourism Council, whose remit is jobs, skills and enterprise. The council is a partnership between Government and industry and will be jointly chaired by myself, the Minister for Skills and Enterprise, my hon. Friend the Member for West Suffolk (Matthew Hancock), and Simon Vincent, Chair of the Hospitality Guild and Hilton President, Europe, Middle East and East Africa. In March, the Prime Minister announced that there will be two new apprenticeship Trailblazers for Tourism and Hospitality.

Electoral Register

Chris Ruane: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what additional central government funding is available to electoral registration officers for the purpose of electoral registration in each of the last 10 years; and which local authorities were successful in bidding for such funding.

Greg Clark: The following additional amounts were available for the purpose of electoral registration in the last 10 years:
	
		
			  £ 
			 2007-08 934,741 
			 2008-09 544,391 
			 2009-10 427,190 
			 2010-11 54,708 
			 2011-12 1— 
			 2012-13 1— 
			 2013-14 4,857,018 
			 2014-15 29,992,993 
			 1 No additional funding. 
		
	
	In the financial years 2007-08 to 2010-11, local authorities were able to bid for funding from the Participation Fund, which was abolished due to lack of demand. A table listing those local authorities which received money from this fund has been placed in the Library of the House.
	The Government has provided funding in 2013-14 and 2014-15, in addition to the Revenue Support Grant, for every local authority and Valuation Joint Board in England, Wales and Scotland for the net additional cost of the transition to Individual Electoral Registration (IER).
	In addition, in 2013-14 every local authority and Valuation Joint Board in England, Wales and Scotland received a share of £3,984,068 funding to support the costs of activities to maximise electoral registration.

Financial Conduct Authority

Paul Flynn: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer 
	(1)  if he will review the scope of the consumer credit regulatory powers of the Financial Conduct Authority;
	(2)  if he will bring forward legislative proposals to amend the statutory powers of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to permit the FCA to investigate alleged illegal actions undertaken before its creation;
	(3)  which powers and responsibilities the Financial Conduct Authority has not inherited from the Office of Fair Trading; and which financial regulatory body has inherited each such power and responsibility;
	(4)  what requirement will be placed on Wonga to track down the address of each customer due financial compensation for unfair and misleading debt collection practices.

Andrea Leadsom: The Government has fundamentally reformed regulation of the consumer credit market. The transfer of regulatory responsibility for consumer credit from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) took effect in April. The FCA has stronger powers and is far better equipped to protect consumers than the OFT.
	Wonga has voluntarily agreed to pay compensation totalling more than £2.6 million to around 45,000 customers in relation to unfair debt collection practices between 2008 and 2010. The requirement agreed by Wonga is available at:
	http://www.fca.org.uk/your-fca/documents/requirement-notices/wonga-group-limited-vreq
	Had Wonga not agreed, the FCA could have used its powers to impose requirements. Wonga will appoint a skilled person (as specified under section 166 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000) to ensure that affected customers receive appropriate compensation.
	More generally, the Government has ensured that the FCA has inherited the OFT’s powers (both criminal and regulatory) in relation to misconduct which occurred before 1 April 2014, as well as considerably strengthening the FCA’s powers in relation to misconduct which occurs under the new regulatory regime.
	The FCA has the same powers as the OFT had to investigate and prosecute offences under the Consumer Credit Act 1974.
	The FCA has also inherited the OFT’s power to fine, although the OFT’s power to fine under the Consumer Credit Act was limited to fining a firm for breaches of a requirement imposed by the OFT (and the maximum penalty in this regard was £50,000). The Government has already strengthened the new regime by giving the FCA the ability to impose unlimited fines for breaches of regulatory requirements that take place after 1 April 2014.

UK Membership of EU: Northern Ireland

Ivan Lewis: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what recent assessment he has made of the economic benefit to Northern Ireland of the UK's membership of the EU.

Nicky Morgan: The Government has made no assessment of the economic benefit to Northern Ireland of the UK’s membership of the EU.

Welfare Tax Credits: Self-employed

Stephen Timms: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many self-employed people claimed (a) child tax credits and (b) working tax credits in each of the last 10 years.

David Gauke: The following table is based on finalised tax credits administrative data for each financial year. The latest data available are 2012-13.
	
		
			 Number of families in receipt of tax credits containing at least one member identified as self-employed 
			 Thousand 
			 Tax year Families benefitting from both WTC and CTC Families benefitting from WTC only 
			 2007-08 740 80 
			 2008-09 760 100 
			 2009-10 780 130 
			 2010-11 800 150 
			 2011-12 750 160 
			 2012-13 600 170 
		
	
	Data from earlier years is available only at disproportionate cost.
	The decrease in the number of self-employed households in 2012-13 can largely be explained by the removal of the “second income threshold” of tax credits in April 2012. This policy change removed a large number of higher income households from the whole tax credits population.
	In general, there is and has been a long-term trend of growth in the number of self-employed people.

Energy

Tom Greatrex: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of his Department's consumption in kWh of (a) gas and (b) electricity in each month since June 2010; and what the cost of such consumption has been in each such month.

Daniel Poulter: The Department’s consumption in kWh of gas and electricity in each month since June 2010 are detailed in the following tables.
	
		
			 Gas consumption 
			 kWh 
			  2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 
			 April — 383,308 375,498 410,643 300,833 
			 May — 334,299 291,491 268,638 231,365 
			 June 214,194 342,759 135,620 171,941 — 
			 July 184,049 238,429 52,692 135,238 — 
		
	
	
		
			 August 270,592 179,116 96,602 144,629 — 
			 September 275,325 172,324 82,137 162,901 — 
			 October 404,226 191,563 249,232 187,581 — 
			 November 549,699 315,677 365,295 378,302 — 
			 December 814,163 448,970 430,231 500,407 — 
			 January 644,972 497,774 537,957 504,784 — 
			 February 554,519 549,609 521,341 460,338 — 
			 March 623,455 475,765 542,183 399,659 — 
		
	
	
		
			 Electricity Consumption 
			 kWh 
			  2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 
			 April — 775,333 727,906 743,420 734,079 
			 May — 828,597 817,660 737,329 743,728 
			 June 1,058,570 879,532 758,422 708,423 — 
			 July 1,119,452 861,447 828,709 1,011,360 — 
			 August 1,007,127 848,332 827,468 834,372 — 
			 September 950,584 845,520 740,170 725,554 — 
			 October 915,324 824,037 813,384 729,868 — 
			 November 928,702 809,542 735,035 712,812 — 
			 December 949,551 812,427 732,011 709,999 — 
			 January 920,671 842,769 811,067 779,265 — 
			 February 814,015 820,963 727,292 689,548 — 
			 March 895,910 820,483 746,071 738,869 — 
		
	
	Gas and electricitycosts
	The Department’s previous way of processing energy bills, makes it difficult to provide meaningful and relevant monthly costs for earlier years but the annual expenditure for 2009-12 is as follows:
	
		
			 £ 
			  Gas Electricity 
			 2009-10 160,572 1,253,708 
			 2010-11 117,690 862,052 
			 2011-12 139,343 1,145,671 
		
	
	The following table outlines the monthly costs of gas and electricity consumption in the Department’s buildings from April 2012-13 to March 2013-14.
	
		
			 £ 
			  Gas Electricity 
			  2012-13 2013-14 2012-13 2013-14 
			 April 18,380 13,986 85,855 92,087 
			 May 10,562 9,197 95,095 89,211 
			 June 6,290 6,368 88,712 85,445 
			 July 8,236 5,205 96,871 121,466 
			 August 5,399 5,480 94,554 99,521 
			 September 6,193 6,105 84,633 87,487 
			 October 12,764 7,748 86,575 87,917 
			 November 15,734 13,337 82,322 86,119 
			 December 17,416 16,644 80,016 86,529 
			 January 18,246 17,817 90,733 90,179 
			 February 19,580 15,973 77,247 82,419 
			 March 20,512 14,369 63,457 65,760 
		
	
	These figures relate to buildings occupied by departmental staff, where the Department is directly responsible for payment of gas and electric bills and can provide monthly consumption figures. This covers Richmond House, Skipton House, Wellington House, Premier House and Premier Buildings (vacated in November 2012).

Knee Replacements

Robert Halfon: To ask the Secretary of State for Health 
	(1)  how many NHS knee replacement operations were carried out in England, by region, in the last three years;
	(2)  how many knee replacement revisions were carried out by the NHS in England in the last three years; and how long the average time interval was between total knee replacement and subsequent revision procedures.

Jane Ellison: The table below shows how many knee replacement operations were carried out in England, by region, in the last three years.
	
		
			  Region Full knee replacement Only one bone in the knee joint is replaced The surface of two joints within the knee joint are replaced 
			 2010-11 North East 4,817 11 144 
			  North West 9,213 42 325 
			  Yorkshire and the Humber 7,686 68 381 
			  East Midlands 5,947 32 191 
			  West Midlands 8,568 96 490 
			  East of England 7,697 41 298 
			  London 6,624 84 509 
			  South East Coast 6,408 74 386 
			  South Central 4,598 121 568 
			  South West 8,433 162 861 
			  England total 69,991 731 4,153 
			      
			 2011-12 North East 5,218 17 149 
			  North West 9,607 25 436 
			  Yorkshire and the Humber 8,147 50 522 
			  East Midlands 6,378 36 258 
			  West Midlands 8,799 29 562 
			  East of England 7,122 25 279 
			  London 7,282 28 605 
			  South East Coast 7,046 53 468 
			  South Central 4,590 79 674 
			  South West 8,976 51 912 
			  England total 73,136† 393 4,865 
			      
			 2012-13 North East 5,031 8 134 
			  North West 9,822 18 350 
			  Yorkshire and the Humber 8,211 25 678 
			  East Midlands 6,246 7 252 
			  West Midlands 8,680 8 593 
			  East of England 7,671 12 319 
			  London 7,112 38 673 
			  South East Coast 6,766 20 484 
			  South Central 4,414 35 836 
			  South West 8,720 32 935 
			  England total 172,676 203 15,256 
			 1 Providers that are not based in England have been removed, and therefore the national totals may not be equal to the sum of the regional totals. 
		
	
	The following table shows how many knee replacement revisions were carried out by the national health service in England in the last three years. Information relating to how long the average time interval was between total knee replacement and subsequent revision procedures is not held centrally.
	
		
			  Region Full knee replacement Only one bone in the knee joint is replaced 
			 2010-11 North East 456 * 
			  North West 825 * 
			  Yorkshire and the Humber 759 * 
			  East Midlands 551 * 
			  West Midlands 751 * 
			  East of England 733 * 
		
	
	
		
			  London 738 * 
			  South East Coast 673 * 
			  South Central 670 * 
			  South West 868 7 
			  England Total 7,024 25 
			     
			 2011-12 North East 422 * 
			  North West 704 * 
			  Yorkshire and the Humber 751 * 
			  East Midlands 547 * 
			  West Midlands 728 * 
			  East of England 612 * 
			  London 747 * 
			  South East Coast 613 * 
			  South Central 576 * 
			  South West 839 * 
			  England Total 6,539 14 
			     
			 2012-13 North East 396 * 
			  North West 759 * 
			  Yorkshire and the Humber 677 * 
			  East Midlands 572 * 
			  West Midlands 713 * 
			  East of England 596 * 
			  London 768 * 
			  South East Coast 584 * 
			  South Central 545 * 
			  South West 915 8 
			  England Total 6,525 18 
			 Notes: 1. Finished Consultant Episode (FCE): Both tables show FCEs. An FCE is a continuous period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FCEs are counted against the year in which they end. The figures do not represent the number of different patients, as a person. 2. The data should not be described as a count of people as the same person may have been admitted on one or more occasion. 3. To protect patient confidentiality, figures between 1 and 5 have been replaced with “*” (an asterisk). Where it was still possible to identify figures from the total, additional figures have been replaced with "*”.

Universal Credit

Chris Bryant: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of extending entitlement to (a) free prescriptions, (b) free eye tests and (c) free dental care to all claimants of universal credit once universal credit has been fully rolled out.

Jane Ellison: The cost to the public purse of extending entitlement to free prescriptions, eye tests and dental care to all claimants of universal credit once universal credit has been fully rolled out will depend on the number of claimants at that time. This number will depend on a range of factors. The Government intends that broadly the same number of individuals will be passported via universal credit as are currently passported.

Civil Servants: Equal Pay

Keith Vaz: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what steps he is taking to ensure gender equality in civil service salaries.

Francis Maude: The median gender pay gap for full-time civil servants has narrowed since 2010 but we must continue to press to narrow the gap further, including by reminding Departments of their clear legal obligations on equal pay and conducting equal pay audits. Salaries for new appointments must be justified on the basis of the skills and experience necessary to do the job. For staff below the senior civil service (SCS), this is for individual Departments to manage. For the centrally-managed SCS, pay proposals have regard to the impact on women.
	More widely, the Government is concerned that a long-standing majority of women in the overall civil service, does not translate into a similar proportion in the SCS. I have commissioned work to address this issue.

Government Departments: Procurement

David Crausby: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what Government spending was in reform of the process of procurement and across central Government in each year since May 2010.

Nick Hurd: The Cabinet Office has been working with central Government Departments to implement a demanding Commercial Reform agenda which is aimed at leveraging the Crown’s buying power, deriving better value for money and savings for the taxpayer to support deficit reduction and growth. This work has been carried out across Departments and costs are not held centrally.
	As a result of our work to date, we have made the way we buy goods and services in central Government quicker, more competitive, more transparent, better value and far simpler than before. This has saved the taxpayer £2.9 billion in 2010-11, with a further £3.0 billion in 2011-12, £3.8 billion in 2012-13 and £5.4 billion in 2013-14. These savings are all calculated against a 2009-10 baseline and include both recurring and non-recurring items.
	All of this could have been started before the 2010 General Election. However in May 2010 there was no effective central oversight of procurement, commercial skills were lacking and Government did not even know who its strategic suppliers were, let alone how much was being spent with them.

Educational Testing Service

David Hanson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the statement of 24 June 2014, Official Report, column 206, on student visas, on what date her Department first became aware of the systematic cheating taking place in the tests of the Educational Testing Service.

James Brokenshire: Since the last election, the Government has taken action to reduce and control immigration and to crack down on the abuse of the system which the previous Government failed to address. We have kept the main immigration routes to Britain under review and remain vigilant against abuse of the student visa system. Around 750 education sponsors have been removed from the register of those entitled to bring overseas students to the UK. We now know that almost 400 of these were linked to the sponsorship of people who obtained invalid ETS certificates. Abuse of the student visa route has been the subject of various lines of inquiry for some time, but Immigration Enforcement officers, together with officials from UK Visas and Immigration and with the support of the National Crime Agency, began conducting a detailed and wide-ranging investigation into actions by organised criminals to falsify English language tests provided by ETS at the start of February.

Passports

Alison McGovern: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what discussions she has had with the Immigration and Passport Service on (a) the service's ability to meet the three-week timescale for processing an application for a child passport and (b) possible extension of that timescale.

James Brokenshire: Expected service standards for processing passports are given at:
	www.gov.uk
	The Secretary of State for the Home Department, my right hon. Friend the Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May), explained in the House on 12 June a set of measures to deal with the high level of passport demand has been put in place. I refer the hon. Member to the statement of 12 June 2014, Official Report, columns 693-94.

Surveillance

Adrian Sanders: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps she is taking to improve the quality of statistics held by government agencies relating to data communication interceptions.

James Brokenshire: The Interception Commissioner publishes information on communications data (CD) and interception warrants. His 2013 report published in April set out for the first time a detailed breakdown by public authority of the number of CD authorisations and notices issued. We are considering the Commissioner's recommendations and will respond in due course.

Energy

Tom Greatrex: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what estimate he has made of his Department's consumption in kWh of (a) gas and (b) electricity in each month since June 2010; and what the cost of such consumption has been in each such month.

Andrew Murrison: The table shows the breakdown of consumption and expenditure relating to gas and electricity for each month since June 2010. Figures are not yet available for the first quarter of financial year 2014-15
	The expenditure data represents physical payments in addition to the accrued expenditure posted to the Ministry of Defence accounts each month.
	Expenditure also includes standing charges as well as costs of pure consumption.
	
		
			  Consumption profiled by month (KWh) Expenditure profiled by month (£) 
			  (a) Gas (b) Electricity (a) Gas (b) Electricity 
			 April 2010 220,858,128 129,901,857 2,444,926 6,790,475 
			 May 2010 164,775,053 86,700,211 2,213,132 16,751,076 
			 June 2010 95,787,907 104,218,404 8,537,291 10,081,041 
			 July 2010 73,950,249 109,711,397 4,472,213 16,594,012 
			 August 2010 79,657,819 98,280,034 2,408,066 13,312,634 
			 September 2010 95,043,441 110,750,612 6,788,549 15,271,722 
			 October 2010 179,416,209 122,478,894 4,255,702 12,688,132 
			 November 2010 332,031,657 134,504,094 7,032,081 20,373,422 
			 December 2010 389,107,353 145,044,702 10,887,374 13,390,497 
			 January 2011 337,242,916 146,380,835 9,265,512 17,653,989 
			 February 2011 298,282,550 145,935,458 15,552,720 17,602,546 
			 March 2011 215,398,713 150,389,236 18,665,001 23,855,343 
			 April 2011 174,257,770 124,679,807 6,747,484 5,508,966 
			 May 2011 130,008,044 83,214,865 10,753,516 15,732,466 
			 June 2011 75,576,965 100,028,828 -1,894,053 8,710,276 
			 July 2011 58,346,984 105,301,003 195,351 15,144,816 
			 August 2011 62,850,274 94,329,180 5,757,534 17,116,742 
			 September 2011 74,989,580 106,298,441 5,964,535 16,803,102 
			 October 2011 141,559,963 117,555,246 9,068,629 16,886,451 
			 November 2011 261,974,040 129,097,034 11,144,607 17,037,146 
			 December 2011 307,006,947 139,213,910 10,145,321 14,657,293 
			 January 2012 266,085,740 140,496,331 8,975,452 21,271,344 
			 February 2012 235,345,887 140,068,857 12,544,421 20,317,807 
			 March 2012 169,950,274 144,343,593 13,365,905 22,673,632 
			 April 2012 155,275,264 129,636,842 -4,376,500 -7,425,061 
			 May 2012 115,845,815 86,523,333 11,751,610 9,240,506 
			 June 2012 67,344,103 104,005,787 24,086,408 31,517,521 
			 July 2012 51,991,043 109,487,573 7,159,533 21,746,099 
			 August 2012 56,003,775 98,079,531 5,502,409 20,153,798 
			 September 2012 66,820,704 110,524,668 8,171,910 30,692,661 
			 October 2012 126,139,344 122,229,023 4,051,582 2,740,964 
			 November 2012 233,436,296 134,229,691 13,854,421 22,356,128 
			 December 2012 273,563,611 144,748,794 3,772,567 17,644,304 
			 January 2013 237,100,094 146,082,202 20,293,334 20,142,302 
			 February 2013 209,708,840 145,637,733 15,206,442 18,858,516 
			 March 2013 151,436,999 150,082,425 12,578,544 21,191,006 
			 April 2013 175,435,384 121,119,864 13,097,470 13,392,638 
			 May 2013 130,886,623 80,838,858 1,056,802 20,339,134 
			 June 2013 76,087,706 97,172,737 13,337,243 17,735,824 
			 July 2013 58,741,286 102,294,377 2,720,868 17,888,759 
			 August 2013 63,275,009 91,635,829 4,338,368 18,888,313 
			 September 2013 75,496,351 103,263,335 3,452,508 13,129,583 
			 October 2013 142,516,609 114,198,729 6,257,282 18,798,135 
			 November 2013 263,744,431 125,410,968 4,560,538 19,714,441 
			 December 2013 309,081,665 135,238,980 23,383,641 18,935,323 
			 January 2014 267,883,917 136,484,784 17,636,991 21,950,106 
			 February 2014 236,936,327 136,069,516 14,364,851 18,888,772 
			 March 2014 171,098,779 140,222,197 12,475,969 22,253,881

Armed Conflict: Sexual Offences

Kerry McCarthy: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will assign a focal point in all UK missions for human rights defenders, including women human rights defenders, to consult on and implement support and protection measures following the Ending Sexual Violence Initiative.

David Lidington: Human rights defenders (HRDs), including women HRDs, play a critical role in the fight against sexual violence in conflict through advocacy, documenting and reporting, providing support to survivors, and holding governments to account. In recognition of the importance of their work, we supported the participation of a large number of HRDs at the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict and have consulted them throughout the development of the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative (PSVI). We will continue to do so as we take forward the outcomes of the Summit through our missions across the globe, both in conflict and post-conflict countries and with our other PSVI partners.
	Any UK post with a significant human rights element to its work already has an existing human rights focal point which would include responsibility for engaging with local HRDs. We also work locally with EU and other colleagues to support HRDs, in line with the EU Guidelines on HRDs and recently updated internal guidance, by speaking out publicly in support of their work, providing funding, raising specific instances of abuse or detention with governments; and working to promote a more conducive atmosphere for their activities.

European Union

William Cash: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs on the initiative of which member states the wording of the draft Conclusions of the EU Presidency at the European Council meeting on 26-27 June 2014 relating to the role of national parliaments in the EU was reduced in scope and significance in the final version.

David Lidington: We welcome the reference in the June European Council Conclusions to the closer involvement of national parliaments in EU decision-making. We will continue to push for a strong voice for national parliaments within the EU, but Her Majesty’s Government is not able to disclose the detail of negotiations.

Carbon Emissions

Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change with reference to the answer for 4 March 2014, Official Report, column 765W, on carbon emissions, to which other technologies that Answer refers to; and whether this would still be the case if the carbon footprint of backup technologies was factored in.

Gregory Barker: Onshore wind power has a very small carbon footprint range relative to other energy generation technologies, including coal and gas-fired generation, which, in 2012, emitted, on average, 895 g/kWh and 415 g/kWh respectively (not allowing for emissions incurred during the manufacture, construction and decommissioning phases)1.
	The Department does not estimate the gas turbine energy contribution (and therefore related CO2 emissions) associated with the reserve generation needed to manage wind variability specifically, due to complex inter-dependencies of the power system operational parameters. However, the need for reserve generation to manage intermittent supply and demand of electricity does not change the fact that any electricity generated by onshore wind-which in the first quarter of 2014 accounted for around 7% of all electricity generated in the UK-has a carbon footprint of just 8 and 20g CO2eq/kWh. Reserve generation displaces the output of existing generating stations to maintain the balance of supply and demand, so there is no net increase of power on the system at any one time; therefore the only additional emissions from reserve associated with wind power is through the inefficiency of running separate generating stations at part load rather than fewer stations at full-load, which is relatively insignificant compared to the carbon savings made.
	1 Coal and Gas emissions factors from table DUKES 5C, available at:
	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/electricity-chapter-5-digest-of-united-kingdom-energy-statistics-dukes

Climate Change: Conferences

Anas Sarwar: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change if he will take steps to ensure the Government is represented at the highest level at the upcoming UN Conference on Climate Change in Lima.

Gregory Barker: Details on the UK delegation to the 20th United Nations Annual Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties (COP) in Lima are yet to be confirmed, but the delegation will include Ministers and senior officials from the Government. The full list of participants in the conference will be published on the UNFCCC website when the COP has concluded, and this will include details of the UK delegation.

Electricity Generation

Tom Greatrex: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what assumptions underly the change set out in his Department's Impact Assessment for the Capacity Mechanism of June 2014 on the forecast capacity price moves from £18/mWh in 2021 to £36.mWh in 2022.

Michael Fallon: The June 2014 Capacity Market Impact Assessment estimates the clearing price will be £18/kW for 2021 and £36/kW for 2022. Please note that the estimated clearing prices are sensitive to small changes in assumptions.
	With the modeling, we have not undertaken work to isolate the impact of a change in a specific assumption to a change in clearing prices. However, we have undertaken sensitivity analysis in the Impact Assessment, as seen on page 28. Annex G of the June 2014 Capacity Market Impact Assessment outlines the modeling approach and assumptions. Please see the following link:
	https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/324430/Final_Capacity_Market_ Impact_Assessment.pdf

Conditions of Employment

Ian Murray: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the Flexible Working Regulations 2014 on workers with zero hours contracts.

Jo Swinson: Under the new regulations, which were brought into force on the 30 June, all employees with 26 continuous weeks of service have the right to request flexible working from their employer. Individuals on zero hours contracts, and who are employees, can request a change in their contracts which could also include a request to move to a fixed hours contract.
	Individuals on zero hours contracts may be employees or workers, depending on the contract agreed between them and their employer. The Government does not keep records on the proportion of individual zero hours contracts workers on either employee or worker contracts.
	While individuals on zero hour contracts, and who are not employees, do not have a statutory right to request flexible working, they can make an informal request to their employer to vary their hours or their working pattern. An employer can also choose to offer contractual rights that are more generous than those provided for in statute.

Copyright: Arts

Mike Weatherley: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what assessment his Department has made of the legal proceedings recently instituted in other EU member states against UK-registered companies involved in the copying of design articles derived from artistic work.

David Willetts: The UK Government does not comment on ongoing legal proceedings. Any company, regardless of where it is registered, should act in accordance with the laws of the relevant EU member state.

Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013

Mike Weatherley: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills if he will take steps to implement section 74 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 before the end of the current parliamentary session; and if he will make a statement.

David Willetts: The Government intends to implement section 74 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013, with appropriate transitional provisions, before the end of the current parliamentary session, following public consultation on those transitional provisions.

Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013

Mike Weatherley: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what assessment his Department has made of the complaints received by the European Consumer Centres' Network against UK-registered companies involved in the copying of artistic design articles as a result of the time taken to implement section 74 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013.

David Willetts: The European Consumer Centre Network is primarily involved in cross-border consumer disputes with traders. The Government does not intervene in such complaints. Nor has it received any information from the Network in relation to complaints against UK-registered companies involved in the copying of artistic design articles. Accordingly, the Government has made no assessment of such complaints.

Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013

Mike Weatherley: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what his Department's planned timeline is for the implementation of section 74 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013; and if he will make a statement.

David Willetts: The Government plans to publish its Impact Assessment and consultation document on the timing of the repeal of section 52 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (i.e. the implementation of section 74 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (“ERRA”)) later this year.
	Once the consultation process has concluded, the Government intends to introduce the secondary legislation to implement section 74 of the ERRA before the end of this Parliament.

Manufacturing Industries: Northern Ireland

Ivan Lewis: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how many delegates from manufacturers based in Northern Ireland were invited to the BIS Manufacturing Summit 2014 held on 19 June 2014.

Michael Fallon: Information on the regional location of Manufacturing Summit delegates was not requested as part of the registration process. However, from the limited data available we have identified one Northern Ireland-based manufacturing company which was invited to the Manufacturing Summit. This particular company decided not to send a representative.
	For future summits we will be looking at ways to create a more diverse mix of CEO-level participants from across manufacturing industry. Proactive suggestions from Hon Members would be welcome as part of this process.

Life Imprisonment

Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many life sentence prisoners were moved into open prisons in each month between January 2010 and December 2013.

Jeremy Wright: Data held centrally on prisoners transferred to open prisons does not distinguish between different types of indeterminate sentenced prisoner. Indeterminate sentences include those serving mandatory, discretionary and automatic life sentences and those serving Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences.
	Identifying which prisoners were serving life sentences would require a manual trawl of records, which would incur disproportionate cost.

Open Prisons

Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prisoners in open prisons were returned to closed prisons in each of the last three years by (a) reason for their return and (b) type of offence originally committed.

Jeremy Wright: We do not centrally hold data on the individual reasons for determinate sentence prisoner transfers, including transfers following re-categorisation and when prisoners have been returned to closed conditions from open prisons. Where this is available, the information could be obtained only at disproportionate cost as it would involve a manual trawl through the records of every prisoner to identify if they have ever been held in open conditions and subsequently returned to closed conditions.
	However, the information, in part, is centrally available in respect of indeterminate sentence prisoners.
	Table 1 provides the number of indeterminate sentence prisoners who have been returned from open conditions to closed conditions and where the transfer occurred between 1 April 2011 and 31 March 2014, grouped by year and by reason for transfer. The data has been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.
	We are unable to provide a breakdown of this information by index offence as this information is not held centrally; to obtain it would require a manual trawl through every case and this would incur disproportionate cost.
	
		
			 Reason for return to closed prison 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 Grand total 
			 Abscond 117 161 170 448 
			 Antisocial Behaviour 48 96 74 218 
		
	
	
		
			 Breach of Licence Conditions 30 33 56 120 
			 Drink/Drugs 139 171 256 568 
			 FNP - - 3 3 
			 Healthcare issues - - 5 5 
			 New charges/offences - - 2 2 
			 Non compliance - 1 28 29 
			 Other 135 235 298 668 
			 Prisoner request - - 2 2 
			 Psychology concerns/issues - - 6 6 
			 Serious breach of prison rules - 1 21 22 
			 Grand total 469 698 921 2,087 
		
	
	The main purpose of open conditions is to test prisoners in conditions more similar to those that they will face in the community. Time spent in open prisons affords prisoners the opportunity to find work, re-establish family ties, reintegrate into the community and ensure housing needs are met. For many prisoners who have spent a considerable amount of time in custody; these can assist in their successful reintegration in the community and protecting the public.
	We make no apologies for taking a firm approach in returning prisoners to closed conditions wherever we need to do so.
	The number of temporary release failures remains very low; less that one failure in every 1,000 releases and about five in every 100,000 releases involving alleged offending, but we take each and every incident seriously. The Government has already ordered immediate changes to tighten up the system as a matter of urgency. With immediate effect, prisoners will no longer be transferred to open conditions if they have previously absconded from open prisons; or if they have failed to return or reoffended whilst released on temporary licence.

Open Prisons

Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 16 June 2014, Official Report, column 458W, on open prisons, what data his Department holds on the number of (a) prisoners in an open prison who previously breached a licence condition while released on temporary licence and (b) prisoners in open prisons who have previously absconded or escaped from prison on the latest date for which figures are available.

Jeremy Wright: I refer my hon. Friend to the reply I gave on 16 June 2014, Official Report, column 458W, on open prisons.
	My officials are currently working to provide the information requested. I will write to you in due course.

Prisoners’ Release

Andy Sawford: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many indeterminate sentence prisoners have been considered and (a) approved and (b) rejected for release on temporary licence; and how many of these had received approval from him for transfer to open conditions.

Jeremy Wright: Data on temporary release applications and the outcomes of such applications is not collected centrally and could not be provided except at disproportionate cost. Data on releases on temporary licence are published at the following links:
	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/offender-management-statistics-quarterly-october-december-2013-and-annual
	and
	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/statistical-notice-releases-on-temporary-licence-2012

Secure Colleges

Dan Jarvis: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice 
	(1)  whether his policy of an early bed time for young offenders will apply in secure colleges;
	(2)  whether the time set for an early bed time for offenders in the youth estate will be the same for all age groups.

Jeremy Wright: We are committed to reforming the youth secure estate. That includes improving the existing regime, within existing establishments, alongside our plans for secure colleges. Introducing a latest bedtime of 10.30 pm in public young offenders institutions is a sensible measure to ensure young people have a routine that will enable them to engage effectively in the regime. In due course we will be discussing with potential operators of secure colleges their proposals for structuring regimes that will maximise engagement.
	Secure training centres and secure children’s homes have bedtimes of around 9 pm to 10 pm depending on the age and behaviour of the young person in question, and whether or not it is a school day.

Food Banks

Eilidh Whiteford: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 
	(1)  with reference to the statement of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, giving evidence to the Scottish Parliament's Welfare Reform Committee on 26 June 2014, that 'I want an analysis of the use of foodbanks that everybody can subscribe to', whether his Department (a) is producing, (b) has commissioned or (c) plans to commission any new research into the use of foodbanks;
	(2)  what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the statement by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, giving evidence to the Scottish Parliament's Welfare Reform Committee on 26 June 2014, that 'there isn't any doubt that there are some people who've gone to foodbanks because they have been subject, for example, to sanctions or delays in receiving benefits'.

Esther McVey: The evidence the Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, my right hon. Friend the Member for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale (David Mundell) provided to the Scottish Parliament’s Welfare Reform Committee on the 26 June 2014 highlighted the underlying complexity to the use of foodbanks.
	The Government has already commissioned a report on food security by Warwick university, which was published in February 2014. The Government has no immediate plans to produce or commission further research, but will keep this under review.
	Benefit clearance times are steadily improving with 92% of benefits being processed on time (within 16 days) nationally which is 6 percentage points higher than in 2009-10.
	We have in place a robust system of safeguards that seek to ensure sanctions are only applied to those claimants who wilfully fail to meet their requirements. It remains the case that the vast majority of claimants do comply and are not sanctioned—each month only around 5% of JSA claimants are sanctioned and fewer than 1% of ESA claimants. Reduced payments are made where necessary to prevent hardship.

Television: Licensing

Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many households with a person aged 75 or over in (a) York Central constituency and (b) York Unitary Authority area were eligible for a free television licence in the last year for which data is available.

Steve Webb: The information requested is not held.

Children: Day Care

Stephen McCabe: To ask the Secretary of State for Education 
	(1)  how much local authorities have spent on external contractors employed to deliver childcare services, excluding fostering and adoption in (a) 2014 to date and (b) each of the last three years;
	(2)  whether his Department has contributed funds to assist local authorities in the payment of external contractors to deliver childcare services excluding fostering and adoption;
	(3)  how many local authorities in England use external contractors to assist with the delivery of childcare services excluding fostering and adoption.

Edward Timpson: Through its Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme, the Government is supporting local authorities to take new approaches to maximise the capacity and skills brought to bear in improving services for the most vulnerable children. Part of that work involves giving local authorities greater freedom to test new delivery models and harness external ideas and expertise by allowing them to delegate children’s social care functions to external providers.
	In November 2013 we gave all local authorities the power to operate in this manner. So far five providers have registered with Ofsted as performing these functions on behalf of local authorities.
	Local authorities also make widespread use of contractors in the provision of children’s services such as residential care and foster care.
	The Government does not collect data on local authority spend on external contracts.

Energy

Tom Greatrex: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what estimate he has made of his Department's consumption in kWh of (a) gas and (b) electricity in each month since June 2010; and what the cost of such consumption has been in each such month.

Elizabeth Truss: The Department for Education has cut its annual energy bill by £1.4 million since 2009-10 through reduced energy consumption, and has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 38% in the same period.
	Emission reductions from energy use have largely been achieved through low and no cost energy efficiency measures, estate rationalisation (by using space more efficiently and co-locating with other organisations), and by operating our remaining buildings even more efficiently.
	The Department’s monthly gas and electricity consumption and associated costs since June 2010 are set out in the following table.
	
		
			  Electricity kWh Electricity cost (£) Gas kWh Gas cost (£) 
			 2010     
			 June 1,164,652 85,441 133,998 8,879 
			 July 1,158,378 129,719 64,158 9,054 
			 August 1,019,308 120,186 17,736 9,137 
			 September 1,009,662 25,431 61,799 1,789 
			 October 972,048 81,233 168,543 1— 
			 November 955,120 73,194 341,850 3,150 
			 December 917,993 72,450 1,368,357 1,318 
			      
			 2011     
			 January 924,050 68,914 502,246 8,286 
			 February 892,663 148,902 528,895 5,817 
			 March 923,772 87,202 492,273 32,115 
			 April 1,017,920 83,562 176,334 14,114 
			 May 1,091,733 56,831 157,050 8,133 
			 June 1,149,462 139,208 97,030 11,247 
			 July 1,128,281 93,764 56,856 6,460 
			 August 1,126,637 125,550 69,121 1,501 
			 September 1,117,836 101,759 96,013 749 
			 October 1,124,928 175,773 166,233 6,537 
			 November 1,117,066 120,616 541,299 3,603 
			 December 1,056,743 1— 422,178 15,183 
			      
			 2012     
			 January 1,115,270 231,972 504,487 6,691 
			 February 1,064,718 119,303 547,419 16,000 
			 March 1,145,769 116,169 402,004 55,082 
			 April 1,045,229 145,955 369,636 14,405 
			 May 1,141,570 26,511 253,486 1— 
			 June 1,020,091 102,484 107,956 17,461 
			 July 1,095,095 314,717 52,479 31,834 
			 August 1,111,575 161,023 21,057 10,461 
			 September 1,030,509 246,659 107,429 7,395 
			 October 1,115,679 122,926 402,196 6,622 
			 November 1,077,060 188,350 459,877 42,443 
			 December 1,028,372 7,344 562,851 1— 
			      
			 2013     
			 January 1,121,535 150,753 695,526 42,660 
			 February 996,349 252,524 662,816 40,218 
			 March 1,064,972 194,770 622,653 42,909 
			 April 1,038,319 64,507 480,835 61,685 
			 May 1,025,212 13,813 355,353 4,905 
			 June 986,704 267,484 125,280 37,910 
			 July 1,152,464 129,589 63,823 7,838 
			 August 1,075,626 162,988 52,313 5,566 
			 September 1,026,536 126,590 91,021 22,527 
			 October 1,039,324 265,576 326,262 6,066 
			 November 1,003,941 148,285 336,372 7,520 
			 December 1,024,778 13,976 374,204 16,265 
			      
			 2014     
			 January 1,046,875 241,727 536,348 38,947 
		
	
	
		
			 February 946,677 138,250 529,496 12,458 
			 March 934,054 133,878 302,627 44,219 
			 April 864,231 17,558 190,423 18,783 
			 May 899,711 226,815 251,680 23,591 
			 1Gaps in financial data are due to delayed billing cycles and inaccurate consumption estimates made by the supplier. 
		
	
	The core Department’s electricity is purchased via the Crown Commercial Service energy framework from renewable sources, and is therefore, exempt from the climate change levy.

Internet: Bullying

Chris Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what steps he is taking to tackle cyber-bullying; and what resources his Department provides to charities which address this issue.

Edward Timpson: The Government believes that internet providers, schools and parents all have a role to play in keeping children and young people safe online.
	All schools must have a behaviour policy which includes measures to prevent all forms of bullying, including cyberbullying. The ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ guidance outlines the importance of tackling cyberbullying, which can be found online at:
	http://www.anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/schools-the-wider-sector/cyberbullying.aspx
	Schools have the flexibility to develop their own measures to prevent and tackle bullying, but are held to account by Ofsted.
	The Government recognises that educating young people about online safety is key to tackling cyberbullying. As part of changes to the new computing programmes of study which will be taught from September 2014, e-safety will be taught at all four key stages. This will empower young people to tackle cyberbullying through responsible, respectful and secure use of technology, as well as ensuring that pupils understand age-appropriate ways of reporting any concerns they may have about what they see or encounter online.
	The new curriculum also offers opportunities to tackle the underlying causes of bullying; for example the new citizenship programme of study sets out a requirement for pupils to be taught about the diverse national, regional, religious and ethnic identities in the United Kingdom and the need for mutual respect and understanding.
	The Department for Education is providing £4 million of funding over two years from 2013 to four anti-bullying organisations: Beatbullying, the Diana Award, Kidscape and the National Children’s Bureau consortium. While this funding has been awarded to specific projects to reduce bullying in general this can, and does, include work to tackle cyberbullying.
	The Department has produced case studies showing good practice in how to manage behaviour and bullying. These include a case study about how a school deals with cyber-bullying. Also through funding provided by the Department the Anti-Bullying Alliance has produced specific advice on cyberbullying for children and young people with special educational needs and or disabilities. We provide a link to this in our own advice on preventing and tackling bullying.
	Government Ministers have regular meetings with internet providers, social media platforms and search engines on matters related to internet safety, including cyber-bullying. Ministers from the Department for Education, Home Office and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport also co-chair the UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS) which brings together a range of experts across Government, law enforcement, industry, academia and charities to consider the best ways to minimise the risk of harm to children when online.
	In July 2013 the Prime Minister announced measures to support parents to install free and easy to use internet filters which can block access to harmful websites. The Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have now rolled out easy to use filtering to all new customers and will confirm that, by the end of 2014, 95% of all homes with an existing internet connection will be required to choose whether to switch on a whole home family friendly internet filter. The filters are constantly being refined and updated by the ISPs to keep families as safe as possible in the fast changing digital world. The ISPs have also announced a new £25 million internet safety campaign over three years that will reach out to millions of parents on how best to protect their children and make good use of filters.

Teachers: Recruitment

Tristram Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many trainee (a) English, (b) mathematics, (c) all sciences, (d) general science, (e) biology, (f) chemistry, (g) physics, (h) ICT, (i) design and technology, (j) modern languages, (k) geography, (l) history, (m) art and design, (n) music, (o) physical education, (p) religious education, (q) business studies, (r) citizenship, (s) 14 to 19 diploma subjects, (t) other subjects, (u) secondary and (v) primary school teachers were recruited through (i) Teach First, (ii) EBITT, (iii) HEI-led and (iv) in total in (A) 2009-10 and (B) 2010-11; and what proportion of his Department's supply targets the number recruited was in each category in each year represents.

David Laws: The data held by the Department on initial teacher training (ITT) recruitment is contained within the ITT Census.
	The ITT Census contains data on recruitment to courses and routes.
	Supply targets are included in ITT Census publications, but are only generated at overall subject level and do not include Teach First numbers for the years in question.
	The ITT Census for 2010-11 is published online:
	https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-teacher-training#performance-data
	The data for 2009-10 recruitment is published in: ‘Additional tables 2: SFR06/2011’:
	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-workforce-in-england-november-2010-provisional
	These data do not contain supply target figures.
	Teach First recruitment was as follows:
	
		
			  2009/10 2010/11 
			 English 119 161 
			 Maths 90 129 
			 Sciences 103 84 
			 ICT 15 12 
			 D&T 7 3 
			 ML 25 36 
			 Geography 17 20 
			 History 20 22 
			 Art & Design 7 3 
			 Music 7 7 
			 RE 12 14 
			 Business Studies 10 23 
			 Citizenship 26 27 
			 Secondary 458 541 
			 Primary 27 19 
			    
			 Total 485 560 
		
	
	Only those subjects listed above were included in the Teach First programme.

Universal Credit

Chris Bryant: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of extending entitlement to free early education to all claimants of universal credit once universal credit has been fully rolled out.

Elizabeth Truss: Government-funded early education for three- and four-year-olds is already a universal entitlement, so there would be no cost of extending the entitlement. Universal credit will be fully rolled out in the next Parliament, and spending decisions for that period have not been taken. This means it is, therefore not possible to estimate the potential cost on early learning for two-year-olds.